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By Jesse McLean Investigative Reporter Thu., May 3, 2018 Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, paid Canadian doctors nearly three-and-a-half times more money than it doled out to U.S. prescribers, according to a Star analysis of the drug maker’s physician payments adjusted for the countries’ populations. Purdue Canada gave just over $2 million to Canadian health-care professionals in 2016 for services such as consulting and delivering speeches on conditions and treatments. That same year, U.S.-based Purdue Pharma L.P. paid American physicians $5.53 million (Canadian), according to a U.S. government database showing the financial ties between Big Pharma and prescribers. (2016 is the only year payment data is publicly available for both countries.) That means for every 1,000 residents, Purdue spent $58 on Canadian doctors compared to $17 in the U.S. Another way to look at it: Purdue gave $24 for every Canadian physician, while its U.S. operations … [Read more...] about Why did the maker of OxyContin pay Canadian doctors nearly three-and-a-half times more money per capita than it doled out to U.S. prescribers?

By Kate Silver The Washington Post Sat., April 28, 2018 If you tell people you’re going to Las Vegas for a week, the reaction tends to be either a raised eyebrow, implying that’s a long time to spend there, or an overly excited and equally presumptuous “Vegas baby!” Sometimes it’s easier to just tell people you’re headed “out West” to avoid the backstory. Here’s mine. Las Vegas is one of my hometowns, a place where, in my 20s and 30s, I very much grew up. I met some of the most amazing friends in the town that tourists — and only tourists — call “Sin City.” Since moving to Chicago in 2009, I’ve seldom been back. But last Oct. 2, I felt an urgent need to visit. That was the day after the shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival, when I awoke to a stream of alerts on Facebook saying this friend and that friend had marked themselves safe in the “Violent Incident in Las Vegas, … [Read more...] about Step off of Las Vegas’ limelight Strip

By Kyle Swenson The Washington Post Thu., March 15, 2018 With her boyfriend finally asleep, Emily Javier allegedly reached for the samurai sword she had secretly taped earlier to the side of the bed. According to an affidavit filed by police, the room was dark, and she sparked her phone to see better. To aim better. Below snoozed Alex Lovell. He played too many videos games, Javier would later explain to the police, and now he was cheating on her, she claimed. She knew the signs. Tinder on his phone. Scratches across his back. A girl’s hair in their shower drain. In the weak phone glow, Javier allegedly started hacking. Lovell woke to his girlfriend of two years attacking him with a sword, police say. Survival instincts — mainly martial arts training and all the Kung Fu films he had watched — clicked in. “I was able to wing chun my way to survival,” he told the Oregonian/OregonLive in an interview this week over Facebook messenger, … [Read more...] about She saw all the signs her boyfriend was cheating. Then she bought a samurai sword

Chelsea started physically attacking her parents after suffering brain damage in an accident at college. She is not alone. There are well-documented cases of people with brain injuries, tumours, and lesions behaving out of character. Studies show that criminals are more likely to have suffered a brain injury than the rest of the population. In severe cases, brain injuries are a line of defence in court, but the science is not strong enough to link all criminal behaviour with brain damage. Four years ago, Chelsea fell head first onto the hardwood floor at her college. She had a seizure and stopped breathing, causing an anoxic injury – when the brain is damaged from not receiving enough oxygen. Before the accident, Chelsea experienced a level of anger similar to any other person. She had certainly never been aggressive. But ever since, she has grappled with mood swings and can’t … [Read more...] about Brain injuries can cause some people to become violent criminals and pedophiles — here’s what scientists know so far about why that is

Chelsea started physically attacking her parents after suffering brain damage in an accident at college. There are well-documented cases of people with brain injuries, tumours, and lesions behaving out of character. Studies show that criminals are more likely to have suffered a brain injury than the rest of the population. In severe cases, brain injuries are a line of defence in court, but the science is not strong enough to link all criminal behaviour with brain damage. Four years ago, Chelsea fell head first onto the hardwood floor at her college. She had a seizure and stopped breathing, causing an anoxic injury – when the brain is damaged from not receiving enough oxygen. Before the accident, Chelsea experienced a level of anger similar to any other person. She had certainly never been aggressive. But ever since, she has grappled with mood swings and can’t contain her rage or … [Read more...] about People are committing violent crimes after suffering brain damage — and researchers are trying to figure out why